Do you want to perform a drama? Don't be panic,
I'll help you. There are 5 steps that you have to do to make a good drama
performance.
1.Brainstorming
This is the first thing that you
have to do. In this step, you have to find the idea for your drama performance.
You can list all the things that come to your mind when you heard the word “drama
performance”. In your group you have to discuss which idea that you will use in
your drama performance.
2.Developing
Developing the idea in very
important step, because here you have to decide where your story goes to. In developing
the idea you can find something or ask someone that can give inspirations to
build your idea.
3.Writing
This is the time for you to write
your story. What you have to consider most are the characters (for example, in
snow white story there has to be Snow White, Wicked queen, dwarfs, and so on),
the setting (where the character are play, for example forest), and the plot (when
the conflict begin). Here is the link for the further information
Here, you have to decide who is
going to be the actors/actress, the director, the costume designer, and so on. In
this step, you have to do your job. Designing the costume, setting on the
stage, lighting, practicing etc. depend on your part.
5.Performing
This is it! Make sure that all the
things are prepared well. Then, do the best in this final day. Good luck for
you.
“Unexpected Week” would be the best
title for this week. My day was full filled with unexpected students and
situations. Actually, my expectation for this first week in the SMAN ** Jakarta
was only to become an assistant teacher. However, the master teacher wanted more
from me. She wanted me to teach in class.
Before Arlin, Umi, and I teach in the
class, she asked us about the way we wanted to use in teaching recount text. My
answer was using game and group work in delivering the material. At first, she
didn’t believe me because she thought that it was only wasting time. After I
convinced her, she gave us chance to try it in the class, and then I said
“hah?” Umi and Arlin kept silent, maybe they were too shock to say something. Although, in the schedule state that the
teaching session is in 2nd week and it’s only 20 minutes, we
accepted the master teacher’s order. We taught the class for the whole session at
that day, 2 x 45 minutes. Even though we taught without any preparation, the
teaching learning process in classroom went well. The students were active in
doing their task that we gave and none of them were sleeping during the class.
The master teacher was amazed by the
situation in the class. She told us that the students usually keep silent when
she taught English, not as active as the time we taught the students in the
class. She also added that the students became more crowed and she loves that
kind of situation. After that successful moment, she asked us to make a lesson
plan to teach narrative text. She gave us the lesson plan that she made before.
In the lesson plan, I read that the teacher explain about the narrative text,
asked the student to make narrative text, then read it in front of the class. The
teacher didn’t give opportunity to the students to make their own explanations
about what narrative text is or when narrative text is used. That’s the reason
why the student kept silent when she taught English. Base on my experience as a
student, if the teacher place herself as the only one source in learning, the
student will think that the teacher always right. Then, the student will only
believe in what teacher said and not curious with the learning material.
Other ineffective teaching was that the
teacher didn’t use Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. The students were
asked to listen, write, and speak. The teacher didn’t include activities for
kinesthetic, spatial, logical-mathematic, and so on. In some ways, she could
teach effectively. She came to the student one by one to look the progress of
the task that the students were doing and explain again the material to the
students who didn’t get the explanation well. This kind of teaching method,
make no one of the students is left behind.
Therefore, in our lesson plan, we change
the teaching methods which are not effective. First, we asked the students to
classify the characteristic of recount and narrative by themselves in group of
four. Second, they had to illustrate the situation in narrative text. Third,
they had to write, speak, and listen to their narrative text. Fourth, they had
to move to correct their friends’ work. All of that, had already did by us, and
it worked.
“Lebay is my life. If you don’t like it, that’s fine. I
never force anyone to love my style or even do like I do, because every person
has different style”. Those were words
that ever came from my teacher’s mouth when one of the students asked why she
taught the students in Lebay style.
She was my ESP (English for Special Purpose) teacher in SMA. She was 29 years
old (when I was in 3rd grade in senior high school) and a mother of
four children. She had ever lived in Malaysia for long time. That’s why she has
Malaysian English accent. The most important information about her is she is my
inspiration teacher.
The reason why I want to be an English teacher is because
I believe that I can be like her, teach the students totally. I love the way
she taught the students in my class, especially when she taught about drama.
She changed her self into the character in the drama and she did it very well.
Every student paid attention to her; no one spoke or even slept. I ever asked
her why she always played the character totally although it was just an example
for mini classroom’s drama. Then she answered, “When we act, on stage or not,
the audience is still audience. Moreover, totalities are needed to be a
teacher.” At that time, I felt like my heart was shaking. After that, I always
say to myself that I want to be a teacher like her, the real teacher who
teaches the student totally.
Now, she is my sister’s ESP teacher. Once I asked my
sister about the way she teaches. The answer is she is still the same and never
changed. I hope someday I will be like her. Maybe I will also say “Alay is my
life” (hehe I’m just kidding).
In this modern age, many people think that the more modern things we
have are the better we get. In my opinion, it’s completely wrong. Do you
know why? Indonesia has many kinds of beautiful traditional cultures,
especially the traditional wedding ceremony. Every province in Indonesia
has their own wedding ceremony and the most beautiful wedding ceremony
is Javanese wedding ceremony. The incredible attractions of Javanese
wedding ceremony can be seen from four processes inside it.
The first process is siraman. The bride has to do siraman in her
house a day before her wedding. Siraman means to clean her body and soul
before ijab qabul. The water that is used in siraman comes from seven
sources and be added by seven kinds of flower. The process begins when
her parents, start from her mother, pour that water over her head. The
process is done, if all of her close relatives, who are married, have
already poured over her head. In the end of the process, the bride has
to break a kendi (earthenware flask with a neck) for showing that the
process is already done.
The second process is balang suruh. The bride and the bride groom
have to do balang suruh which is held after ijab qabul. Balang suruh is a
process when they throw sirih leaf that has been rolled before, to each
other. They throw sirih leaf in the same time. This process means that
they love each other and willing to be loyal to each other. It
symbolizes their goal in having a lovely and harmonious marriage and
live happily ever after.
The last and the most important processes in this ceremony are wiji
dadi and sinduran. Wiji dadi is a process of several ceremonies that
newly wedded couple has to undergo, such as: first, the bride groom has
to step on an egg until it breaks down. Second, the bride has to wash
the bride groom’s foot with water that has been added by seven kinds of
flower. The stuff that is used to take the water is a piece of coconut
shell. Wiji dadi means the bride groom will become a responsible and be a
good father when the have children. Another process is sinduran that
every newly wedded couple also has to undergo, such as: first, the bride
and the bride groom stand in front of the bride groom’s parents.
Second, the bride groom’s parent will cover a cloth on bride and bride
groom’s shoulders. The cloth which is used in this process is sindur
cloth. That is the reason why this process named sinduran. The meaning
of sinduran process is the bride groom’s family accepts the bride as the
new member of their family. In the end of this process is the spoon
feed each other which mean they will live together in happiness and
sadness.
Javanese wedding ceremony has incredible attractions in each process
inside it, especially four processes that mention above. Even though
those processes sound very complicated and so many stuffs we need to do
it, but every process in this ceremony is very meaningful and useful in
our live. In each process symbolize the bride and the bride groom’s
expectation like having a lovely and harmonious family, have a loyal
husband and wife, live together in happiness and sadness, and so on.
Therefore, the incredible attraction of Javanese wedding ceremony can be
seen from the meaning of each process which can influence our live
better than before. In my opinion, we should not think the complication,
but think about what we will get from them. Those processes will
fascinate you, if you know the meaning.
At
first, I thought that the strongest type of intelligences that I have is kinesthetic
intelligence. I thought that way, because I used to dance since I was in kindergarten
and I love dancing so much until now. However, after I use self-diagnostic for
identifying multiple intelligences that Pak Iwan gave, I found that my
strongest type of intelligence is interpersonal intelligence. I was made
confuse by the result, I counted it again but the score is still the same.
Then, I realize the reasons why interpersonal intelligence is the strongest
intelligence that I have.
First, I
am the president of traditional dance club in SSE, Tatra Abhirama. Works together
with other member to manage the club is an ordinary and obligatory thing for
me. I have to give directions to my secretary to make some proposals, I must
monitor the club’s inventories from club’s member, and so on. Second, I usually
have group assignment. That’s make my creative ideas usually appear if other people
push my creative thinking ability. For example, when doing a class project or
other project that do in a group my idea will come to complete someone’s idea. That
means, my ideas have to be hooked first with other group member’s ideas. The last
but not least, I often dance in a group and dancing in a group is need good
coordination. While I am dancing in team I must equalize my power with other
dancer, and its need good interpersonal intelligence.
From that
reasons, I conclude that almost every activity that I do are need interpersonal
intelligence. I think nothing wrong with it anymore. I will also build my
intrapersonal intelligence, because I remember that intrapersonal intelligence
is also important for teacher.
In some
ways that Pak Iwan used to teach effective teaching last Friday in classroom is
effective, but some other ways are not effective. For example, when we were
watching a video about effective teaching, actually I felt sleepy and not focus
in watching it even it’s a good video. This situation also appears in other
subject when I have to watch a video or only listening to the teacher. Maybe it’s
my big problem. I cannot only sit, listen, and watch something without doing
anything physically. I have to move and doing activities while learning. I
think it would be good if we watch video and in the same time, we do some
activities. I think there is a way to solve this problem.
However,
there are also effective ways that Pak Iwan used while teaching last Friday. For
instance, group activity. With this way I didn’t feel sleepy anymore. It is
because I interacted with other students and I did some activities, such as
read and discussed. I also love a moment when Pak Iwan shared his experience. I
love that moment because sometimes the experiences that people said have some
similarities with my experience, so I can get benefit of it by imitate the
things they do to solve the problem. In that time, Pak Iwan gave me a lot of
information for being a teacher. Other effective way that is used is relate the
material in a real situation. The text that Pak Iwan gave and the way he
moderate the discussion is very effective, I think. He gave opportunities for
all students to speak about what they understand from the text.
Overall,
I can understand the material that Pak Iwan taught. For additional, I like the
way he deliver the material. His gesture and the way he speak is very natural
but still in good organization. What I understand about effective teaching is not
only the method that the teachers use but also the way he/she deliver the
material.
The best
method for Indonesian students is total physical response. In my opinion, this
method can make the lesson more interesting. As I feel as an Indonesian
student, almost all the text book and the way the teacher teach is only listen,
drill and practice. With using total physical response, the class’s atmosphere
would be changed. The reason why is that this method use the physical response
of the students so that it makes the students have less time to get bored and
feel sleepy. The other reason, when using this method, learning will fun and
reduce the stressfulness. Moreover, if the students’ stressfulness is reduced,
the lesson that the teacher gives could be easier to understand by the student.
Students will mastered what they learn not only by remembering what is written
in text book or what the teacher said, but also with their understanding about
the movement that they did in classroom.
Those are the reasons why I think this method are the
most suitable method for Indonesian context. However, this method seems like
more effective for kinesthetic students because it uses physical movement. For
the others multiple intelligences, this method is working but not as effective
as in kinesthetic students. To maintain classroom, teacher needs to do
effective teaching by learning all the methods and apply them in the right
situation. Still, the use of total physical response gives more advantages than
its disadvantages.
